From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 2 2:26:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rapier.smartspace.co.za (rapier.smartspace.co.za [66.8.25.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D49E37B491 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 02:26:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 91748 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Feb 2001 10:26:06 -0000 Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 12:26:06 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: FreeBSD Admin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot -s and read-only root filesystem , help Message-ID: <20010202122606.B91437@rapier.smartspace.co.za> References: <200102020950.f129oiY03553@bart.esiee.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200102020950.f129oiY03553@bart.esiee.fr>; from freebsd@bart.esiee.fr on Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 10:50:44AM +0100 Organization: Building Intelligence X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri 2001-02-02 (10:50), FreeBSD Admin wrote: > I am facing a boring problem at 4.1-RELEASE > > The /etc/ttys file has been corrupted it seems > and now when the machine boots up I am not able > to have any accessible console > The machine starts its services but I cannot access to it ... > inetd is NOT running on this machine to add some fun !!! > > when I boot in single user mode I cannot modify any file > as the root filesystem is mounted read-only mode ... If you did a clean shutdown, you need only do: mount -u / Otherwise, you need to fsck the partition too. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message